Interpersonal Influence Quotes

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge.

Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

At the time I wasn’t really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that ’cause they regular people just like everybody else.

When [Lyndon B.] Johnson wanted to persuade you of something, when you got the "Johnson treatment," you really felt as if a St. Bernard had licked your face for an hour, had pawed you all over.

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

I cannot change others, but I can influence others... we can't change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.

Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

Emotion is contagious.

I keep saying that I am made of two cities and all my friends. You learn different things from different people.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.